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Article #1165Re: Can you make ditroff print in landscape orientation on an Apple laserwriter?
From: Ross Parker
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 18:40
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 18:40
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In article <1900@eric.mpr.ca>, parker@zaphod.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) writes: > If you're using Transcript version 2.1 (I think this will work for > earlier versions also), simply add a '-r' flag onto the 'psdit' > command line. You'll need to set up the page length and page width > within your document to suit (and tbl still has a hard-coded limit, > I believe). Here's a sample command line: > > tbl file | /usr/lib/ditroff -ms -Tpsc -i | /usr/local/transcript/psdit -r | > lpr -Pps Whoooops! Ignore that message... I'd forgotten that I'd modified our psdit to handle page rotation! What's needed is to include the necessary PostScript commands in the output of psdit in order to rotate the page. If anyone's interested, I can send diffs to psdit. Ross Parker | Why do they put me down? Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. | Make out that I'm a clown? Burnaby, B.C., | I drink scotch whisky all Canada, eh? uunet!ubc-cs!mpre!parker | day long (604)293-5495 parker@mpre.mpr.ca | Yeah I'm gonna save my money Disclaimer: | (gonna put it all away...) My fingers are doing all the work... | 'Cause I'm a Scotsman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!ists!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!eric!zaphod.mpr.ca!parker From: parker@zaphod.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Can you make ditroff print in landscape orientation on an Apple laserwriter? Message-ID: <1905@eric.mpr.ca> Date: 17 Nov 89 18:40:06 GMT Article-I.D.: eric.1905 References: <1900@eric.mpr.ca> <621@alias.UUCP> Sender: news@eric.mpr.ca Reply-To: parker@zaphod.mpr.ca (Ross Parker) Organization: Microtel Pacific Research Ltd. (MPR) Lines: 27